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Rerun Solitaire

Rerun is one of the new games in Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 for Windows. Download at Goodsol.com/download.html

 

Rerun is a variation of the games La Belle Lucie and Linus.

 

Goodsol Newsletter #373 - New Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows v20.1 with 1040 Games

Goodsol Newsletter #373 New Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows Version 20.1 with 1040 Games 25th Anniversary Year!   Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 with 1040 Games - Download Now! A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows is now available! Version 20.1 is available for download from Goodsol.com/download.html Here is what is new: 10 new games, bringing the total number of games to 1040. TO DOWNLOAD Download Pretty Good Solitaire version 20.1 from Goodsol.com/download.html . Or, if you have a previous version installed, you can run the game, go to the Internet menu, and select "Download Latest Version". Be sure to exit the game before you install. TO UPGRADE If you registration code begins with "2d", "48", "2e", "25", or "4u", version 20.1 is a free update. Otherwise, it is not. If your code worked in version 20.0, it will work in version 20.1. Full details on upgrading are at Goodsol.com/upgrade.html. Upgrades are still only US$11.95 and are vital to keep us going to make Pretty Good Solitaire better. Upgrading now gets free updates through the end of the 2025 version. If you have lost your code and need to type it in again (note that the new version should find your code if installed on a computer that had a full version installed previously), you can request that your registration code be sent to you again from Goodsol.com/regusers.html. TO ORDER Pretty Good Solitaire version 20.1 is US$24.95 for immediate electronic delivery. If you want an additional CD, there is an option to add US$9.95 shipping for a CD (note that shipping cost may vary by country and we currently cannot ship to some countries due to the pandemic). In addition to installing the basic game, the CD also installs all of the currently available extra card sets. You can order online from Goodsol.com/order.html using major credit cards or PayPal. In some countries, other payment options such as using your Amazon account and bank transfers are also available. The 10 New Games Challenge Klondike - a more difficult version of Klondike with the Aces and Twos buried - similar to Challenge FreeCell. Corona Rush - a variation of Corona with Gold Rush style redeals. Indian Thirteen - a variation of Indian Patience with 13 tableau piles. Japanese Rug - a more difficult version of Crazy Quilt (similar to the game in Pretty Good MahJongg). Lazy Susan - a more difficult version of Mamy Susan. Osmotic Klondike - a mixture of Osmosis and Klondike, similar to Osmotic FreeCell. Rerun - a variation of Linus and La Belle Lucie. SuitCell - a variation of FreeCell with all cards of the same suit dealt to the same piles at the start of the game. Triple Australian - a three deck version of the popular game Australian Patience. Triple Golf - a three deck version of Golf.   Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition - Goodsol.com/mac Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is currently at version 3.56 with 750 games. If you have the full version installed, just go to the Internet menu, select Download Latest Version to update.   Our iPad Games - Goodsol.com/iPad Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is currently at version 1.5 with 700 games.   Pretty Good Solitaire Mini - Goodsol.com/iPhone Pretty Good Solitaire for iPhone is currently at version 1.0 with 720 games.  Still only 99 cents.   Pretty Good MahJongg - Goodsol.com/pgmj Our companion game to Pretty Good Solitaire is Pretty Good MahJongg, solitaire with MahJongg tiles. Pretty Good MahJongg for Windows and Mac are currently have 410 games and layouts. Pretty Good MahJongg for Mac works in macOS 10.15 Catalina. Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code again, you can always request that your code be sent to you: https://www.goodsol.com/regusers.html. -- Contact Us - Goodsol.com/contact.html Lost Code - Goodsol.com/regusers.html -- Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - [email protected] Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - [email protected] ©2020 Goodsol Development Inc. PO Box 9155, Springfield IL  62791 Pretty Good Solitaire, Pretty Good MahJongg, and more.  Visit us at Goodsol.com. List Archive:  View past newsletters.

Lazy Susan

Lazy Susan is one of the new games in Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 for Windows. Download at Goodsol.com/download.html

 

Lazy Susan is a more difficult version of the Forty Thieves type game Mamy Susan.

 

Japanese Rug

Japanese Rug is one of the new games in Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 for Windows. Download at Goodsol.com/download.html

 

Japanese Rug is a harder version of Crazy Quilt. It is just like the game of the same name played with MahJongg tiles in Pretty Good MahJongg.

 

Corona Rush

Corona Rush is one of the new games in Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 for Windows. Download at Goodsol.com/download.html

 

Corona Rush is an easier version of Corona, which can be hard to win. Corona Rush adds redeals and is mostly winnable.

 

Challenge Klondike

Challenge Klondike is one of the 10 new games in Pretty Good Solitaire v20.1 for Windows. Download at Goodsol.com/download.html

 

Challenge Klondike is just like Klondike, but more difficult because the Aces and Twos are always buried.

 

New Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows v20.1 with 1040 Games

A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows is now available!

Version 20.1 is available for download from Goodsol.com/download.html

Version 20.1 contains 10 new games:

 

The 10 New Games

Challenge Klondike - a more difficult version of Klondike with the Aces and Twos buried - similar to Challenge FreeCell.

Corona Rush - a variation of Corona with Gold Rush style redeals.

Indian Thirteen - a variation of Indian Patience with 13 tableau piles.

Japanese Rug - a more difficult version of Crazy Quilt (similar to the game in Pretty Good MahJongg).

Lazy Susan - a more difficult version of Mamy Susan.

Osmotic Klondike - a mixture of Osmosis and Klondike, similar to Osmotic FreeCell.

Rerun - a variation of Linus and La Belle Lucie.

SuitCell - a variation of FreeCell with all cards of the same suit dealt to the same piles at the start of the game.

Triple Australian - a three deck version of the popular game Australian Patience.

Triple Golf - a three deck version of Golf.

 

Goodsol Newsletter #372 - Lady Jane Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #372 Lady Jane Solitaire   In this newsletter I feature the classic game Lady Jane. A new version of Pretty Good Solitaire is also coming soon. - - Thanksgiving Card Set The Thanksgiving Card Set, a card set with Thanksgiving holiday images on the cards, can be downloaded from https://www.goodsol.com/pgs/thanksgiving.html. Both Windows and Mac versions of the card set are available.   Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows - Goodsol.com/download Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows recently updated to version 20.0 with 1030 games and Daily Quests. This 25th anniversary version has 15 new games including Quadruple FreeCell, Quadruple Demons, Persimmon, Agnes Four, Patience's Royal, and more. If you haven't downloaded the new version yet, give it a try! Download Now!   Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition - Goodsol.com/mac Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is currently at version 3.56 with 750 games. If you have the full version installed, just go to the Internet menu, select Download Latest Version to update. Version 3.56 works in the latest macOS 10.15 Catalina.   Our iPad Games - Goodsol.com/iPad Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is currently at version 1.5 with 700 games.   Pretty Good Solitaire Mini - Goodsol.com/iPhone Pretty Good Solitaire for iPhone is currently at version 1.0 with 720 games.  Still only 99 cents.   Pretty Good MahJongg - Goodsol.com/pgmj Our companion game to Pretty Good Solitaire is Pretty Good MahJongg, solitaire with MahJongg tiles. Pretty Good MahJongg for Windows and Mac are currently have 410 games and layouts. Pretty Good MahJongg for Mac works in macOS 10.15 Catalina.   Goodsol Solitaire Forum - Goodsol.net/forum Discuss our solitaire games and winnable game numbers with other solitaire players.   Featured Game - Lady Jane Lady Jane is a very easy original solitaire game of the Klondike type invented for Pretty Good Solitaire. A video giving the rules to Lady Jane is at How to Play Lady Jane Solitaire. At the start of the game, cards are dealt to ten tableau piles, one card to the first pile, two cards to the second pile, and so on up to ten cards to the tenth pile. All the cards are dealt face up. There will be eight foundations piles, founded by Aces when they are available and built up in suit from the Aces to Kings. The remainder of the cards form a stock, which is turned over three cards at a time to a waste pile. The top card of the waste pile is available for play on the tableau piles and foundations. Building in the tableau piles is down regardless of suit. However, only groups of cards in sequence down by suit can be moved as a group (this is like the group moving rules in Spider). There is one redeal of the stock. The game is won when all the cards have been moved to the foundations. Lady Jane is a very easy game to win, an average player can win it 99% of the time. A good player can play it thousands of times in a row without a defeat. Lady Jane is one of the 1030 games in Pretty Good Solitaire (for Windows), one of the 750 games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition, one of the 700 games in Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad, and one of the 720 games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mini for iPhone. For more featured games, see the Solitaire Guide. -- Contact Us - Goodsol.com/contact.html Lost Code - Goodsol.com/regusers.html -- Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - [email protected] Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - [email protected] ©2020 Goodsol Development Inc. PO Box 9155, Springfield IL  62791 Pretty Good Solitaire, Pretty Good MahJongg, and more.  Visit us at Goodsol.com. List Archive:  View past newsletters.

Goodsol Newsletter #371 - Australian Patience Solitaire

Goodsol Newsletter #371 Australian Patience Solitaire   In this newsletter I have another new video, this time about how to use the tile matching layout editor in Pretty Good Mahjongg. The featured game is Australian Patience. - - How to Use the Layout Editor in Pretty Good MahJongg - New Video I have a new video - How to Use the Tile Matching Layout Editor in Pretty Good MahJongg. This video shows how to use the Layout Editor in Pretty Good MahJongg to create your own tile matching layouts. Pretty Good MahJongg is at Goodsol.com/pgmj - Windows and Mac versions available.   Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows - Goodsol.com/download Pretty Good Solitaire for Windows recently updated to version 20.0 with 1030 games and Daily Quests. This 25th anniversary version has 15 new games including Quadruple FreeCell, Quadruple Demons, Persimmon, Agnes Four, Patience's Royal, and more. If you haven't downloaded the new version yet, give it a try! Download Now!   Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition - Goodsol.com/mac Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition is currently at version 3.56 with 750 games. If you have the full version installed, just go to the Internet menu, select Download Latest Version to update. Version 3.56 works in the latest macOS 10.15 Catalina.   Our iPad Games - Goodsol.com/iPad Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad is currently at version 1.5 with 700 games.   Pretty Good Solitaire Mini - Goodsol.com/iPhone Pretty Good Solitaire for iPhone is currently at version 1.0 with 720 games.  Still only 99 cents.   Lost Codes - Lost Code Lookup If you need your code again, you can always request that your code be sent to you: https://www.goodsol.com/regusers.html.   Featured Game - Australian Patience Australian Patience is a solitaire game that combines elements from the popular games Klondike, also known as the standard Windows solitaire game, and Yukon. To begin the game, 28 cards are dealt out to the tableau, four cards each to seven piles. All of the cards are face up. The remainder of the cards form a stock, which will be turned over one card at a time to a waste pile. The 28 card layout is the same number of cards as Klondike, although the fact that all the piles have the same number of cards is different from Klondike. There are four foundation piles, each pile built up in suit from Ace to King, as in both Klondike and Yukon. The object of the game is to move all of the cards to these piles. The seven tableau piles are built down by suit. Empty spaces in the tableau may only be filled by a King or a group of cards headed by a King. Among the seven tableau piles you can move groups of cards regardless of any sequence. This means that any face up card, no matter how deeply buried, can be moved by picking it and all the cards on top of it up together. This is like Yukon. When you have no moves, you can turn over the top card of the stock to the waste pile. The top card of the waste pile is available for play on the foundations or on a tableau pile. You can play only once through the stock, there is no redeal. Australian Patience is harder than Yukon primarily because of the stock and waste piles. Needed cards are often buried in the waste pile and unavailable. A low ranked card that gets buried deep in the waste pile will usually spell doom for the game. To win, you need to get as many cards out of the waste pile as possible. Average players can win Australian Patience only about 20% of the time, while very good players can get their winning percentage up to around 33%. It's origin is in Australia, hence it's name. The game made its first appearance anywhere in Pretty Good Solitaire in 1996 from a suggestion by a user. Australian Patience is one of the 1030 games in Pretty Good Solitaire (for Windows), one of the 750 games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mac Edition, one of the 700 games in Pretty Good Solitaire for iPad, and one of the 720 games in Pretty Good Solitaire Mini for iPhone. For more featured games, see the Solitaire Guide. -- Contact Us - Goodsol.com/contact.html Lost Code - Goodsol.com/regusers.html -- Thomas Warfield - Software Designer - [email protected] Anne Warfield - Order Fulfillment - [email protected] ©2020 Goodsol Development Inc. PO Box 9155, Springfield IL  62791 Pretty Good Solitaire, Pretty Good MahJongg, and more.  Visit us at Goodsol.com. List Archive:  View past newsletters.